Do we still need the space before the slash in <hr / "> and others?

Question

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Space before closing slash?

Hi,

If I remember correctly, we have this in the first place, as some old version of Netscape suffocated if we did not add a space (it would seem that node never ends).

But is it really necessary today?

Answer 1

According to the HTML5 specification , void elements do not require a self-closing character /.

Their exact expression

, void , , U + 002F SOLIDUS (/). , .

void area, base, br, col, command, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr

, , : html5

<hr>
<hr/>
<hr />

, , doctype

Answer 2

XML content-type: application/xhtml+xml, . XHTML HTML, , - , , .

Answer 3

. , .

, . , , XHTML, <br> :)